01 October, 2006

...and books to read

- Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the rise of raunch culture - Grossman's Life and Fate- Peter Weiss's The aesthetics of resistance (might try this in German since the English translation appears to be very small print on very large pages. Also, I should probably attempt either this or Life and Fate, and not both.)- Peter Linebaugh's The London hanged, on recommendation from my friend S. A history of those hanged at Tyburn and the phenomenon of public executions.- Martin Walker's The Cold War (still not getting very far with this, despite it seeming quite readable.)- Joe Sacco's Notes from a defeatist (graphical reportage)- Christa Wolf's Musterkindheit and Medea- Christopher Booker's massive The seven basic plots: why we tell stories, about the history and reasons for human storytelling.